Scars from the Tornado: One Year at Joplin East Middle School
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1482571587 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Randy Turner is an eighth grade English teacher at Joplin East Middle School and has taught in the Joplin School District for 10 years. Prior to becoming a teacher, he spent two decades as a newspaper reporter and editor. He is the co-author of 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado and Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Tornado, and has written two other non-fiction books and three novels.
One student lost his life. When the most deadly tornado to hit the United States in six decades roared through Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, it destroyed one-third of the city, and took 161 lives. Scars from the Tornado is the heartwarming story about how teachers and students faced one of the most challenging years any school has ever had.. Many of the students lost their homes and had their lives changed forever. Randy Turner, an eighth grade English teacher at East and co-author of 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado and Spirit of Hope, reveals how he and his fellow faculty members battled to make a warehouse into a school and a second home for the children. Scars from the Tornado tells the story of h
One Star Amazon Customer never recieved. Kimberly J. Dorris said Wonderful book!. I really enjoyed Mr. Turner's newest book sharing stories from the students at East Middle school. My daughter was also one of Mr Turner's students and we lost our home in the tornado as well. All of us share similar stories, but here he has brought those stories together and shown the true spirit of our hometown: Strength. Thank you, Mr Turner, for being an awesome teacher, that made such a difference in my daughter's life.. Just because I honestly haven't read this book yet, but I'm buying it just because this Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt nutbag doesn't like it. I guess any publicity is good publicity after all.EDITOK, NOW I've read the book. This is a collection of essays, poems and pictures from mostly middle school students who have been impacted by the Joplin tornado. As a chaser, we often see the immediate aftermath, but not the long term impacts of tornadoes, so the promise of that perspective is what drew me to this
Prior to becoming a teacher, he spent two decades as a newspaper reporter and editor. Randy Turner is an eighth grade English teacher at Joplin East Middle School and has taught in the Joplin School District for 10 years. . He is the co-author of 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado and Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Torna